Metal Refining & Recovery, Episode 23: Recovering Inquart Silver

[@SparksThePhysicist]

Ive been watching your videos for years now with very little understanding of what was actually happening, but I was still always listening and trying to figure out what was happening. Now this year in high school im taking chemistry and im doing great because everything ive been watching in your videos and other videos is starting to make sense in my head. Thanks for the great videos Cody.

[@keepcalmsaltandburn]

ahhhhhh, this is such a wonderful comment. I hope seeing stuff like this makes him feel as warm and fuzzy inside as it did me, lol. keep learning! ❤️

[@MirageCalico]

@@brandonknight7240 bunnies! :D

[@j5jackson878]

This is what its all about! Sharing knowledge and experience. Just rememeber to pass it on to anyone who succeeds you!

[@coachro4st13]

Metal Refining & Recovery, S2E7: Recovering Inquart Copper

[@ChrisTheGregory]

S2E17: Recovering Inquart Flerovium

[@jauume]

Hey, we have the same profile pic!

[@MasterManWithThePlan]

I try to watch codys lab as soon as it comes out because who knows how long until youtube takes it down

[@pfcande]

That's my thoughts. At this point, I think they might start making up reasons to pull his videos.

[@thered4048]

Why would they pull his videos? Hes awesome...

[@JollyJoel]

If you pay his Patreon you can watch the videos while they're Unlisted, that's usually when they're taken down, before most people tend to watch. That also means the people (or person) that reports his videos is a Patreon supporter. Unless it was automatically taken down but his "How to make Nitrogen" videos (old and new) get taken down by reporting.

[@thered4048]

Why tf are they taken down though? ...

[@JollyJoel]

I don't know, Cody said he doesn't know why he's being targeted because King of Random and many others have similar videos that aren't being taken down. Even his old video that I subbed to him for was "Making Gun Powder from Urine" was taken down and that's been on KZbin for like 6+ years

[@justsomecommentchannel8602]

10:36 I never heard Hydrochloric Acid make such a sound. Very interesting.

[@Dbt7be]

Quality comment

[@Krillzo69]

:D

[@bongothepsycho7280]

was expecting something not dissapointed

[@DylanGracias]

Congrats on being able to upload again

[@epomeni-ekpompi]

lol the irony

[@Markchill2]

lol

[@HeyBroRelaxx]

Σωτηρηε Ντασκας why's it ironic, I must be out of the loop

[@epomeni-ekpompi]

sorry i not know good english

[@rockyjjones8989]

Dylan Gracias I totally agree with you.

[@Freizeitflugsphaere]

You are really the best science-teacher on KZbin!

[@benm5913]

Freizeitflugsphäre I would say best chemist. Best physics teacher is Yearney.

[@Freizeitflugsphaere]

Ben M oh cool! Haven't heard from him until now!😃

[@Freizeitflugsphaere]

Ben M could you send a link to his channel? Cant find him...

[@timothyb.3533]

Lol, this is true. I could actually see him being a collage chemist teacher. Tbh i think it would be awesome if he came to me school for a week.

[@bryangarrison9447]

He knows his Stuff! He had a Strong Family Background in Science and Mining. But, I wish he would use his Safety Glasses. He's going to get Platinosis! No Cure, and it is a Silent Killer!

[@SidewinderScience]

Its interesting to watch the clock in the end time-lapse; is it temperature causing it to fluctuate?

[@theCodyReeder]

Maybe but which is changing? the wall clock or the camera?

[@codydonreeder4056]

My guess is the camera since it seemed like every time the clock was off the image would have been harder to compress due to something changing or perhaps it took a little time to readjust to a different amount of light.

[@louishej8364]

Nice

[@DylanGracias]

Something smells fishy here

[@Zimpfnis]

Cody'sLab did you have a conversation with yourself? Isn't that post from your second channel?

[@SickFlicksTrick]

Cody puts a lot of time into making these videos; coming up with an idea, preparing for it, doing it, filming it, editing it. It's not a trivial amount of work. Chucking a couple bucks in the hat to show your appreciation is something you should do anyway, if we all did Cody would be able to spend a lot more of his time making this content that we all enjoy so much. We have to support the things we love or they will die and it literally only takes a dollar or so when we all contribute. I've seen channels that I enjoyed but didn't think to support turn into KZbin turds full of clickbait, over-reactions and worst of all a tool for soulless advertiser shilling and it wasn't their fault they just needed to make a living and because people like myself didn't think to support them they were forced to either stop making content or turn to garbage. Really shocked people are complaining about Cody holding back a bit of information that isn't even really necessary for what the video is about he always said this isn't for making money it's for enjoying and learning through the process.

[@pielord33321]

"Sir, we used all our silver to refine the gold. What should we do?" "I dunno, do we have any other chunks of even less precious metal lying around?" - metallurgists, probably

[@polyjohn3425]

Until the widespread development of electrochemistry that's exactly how it was done.

[@skylerlehmkuhl135]

Next up: using iron to refine the copper.

[@DunningofKruger]

You could actually use zinc powder to drop the copper out of solution

[@pangolinproductions576]

Deatheraux or aluminum

[@pangolinproductions576]

Deatheraux and then baking soda!

[@archetypalculinarian]

The content level of your videos is almost unmatched on KZbin. I cannot comprehend why there are people pushing to get strikes against this channel. This is REAL science. This is exactly the reason why we know how to refine metals, because people sat and figured this stuff out, and it is awesome to watch modern people using these techniques outside of a laboratory environment. Keep it up Cody, this is what KZbin, and the internet in general is all about, not little kids playing Minecraft.

[@shadowstorm657]

*Holding glowing hot crucible with tongs, those with bare hands* Oh its hot. Cody 2018 I genuinely think this is the best representation of the channel, Cody explaining things very well and then instantly does something that would be horribly unsafe for people to do were he to not have so much time invested in this kind of thing.

[@jcpkill1175]

This is one of the coolest videos ive seen yet, love the time lapse. I kinda wish i had you as a chemistry teacher... then again the chem teacher i had was amazing herself, shes what sparked a love for these types of videos.

[@ThZuao]

Could you do a Titanium refining video? Probably not worth your money or time to do it in practice. But I'll be happy with just an explanation of the process. Just want to know exactly how hard it is. Ti is as abundant as Aluminium, but tougher by weight. The reason it isn't everywhere is because it's so costly to refine.

[@sjsjsjjssjsjssjj]

no

[@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641]

First you have to extract the titanium from ore with a stream of chlorine gas at high temperatures, then it has to be heated to like 2200 degrees with a reducing metal under an inert atmosphere in a steel reaction vessel and held at that Tempe for a few days until it's done reacting. It's not really something you can do at home.

[@parkhillmedia]

I love this channel! I was worried about the silver when you did that gold video, I was thinking "oh damn he is sacrificing all that lovely silver? that sucks!", but you recovered it! I learned a lot from watching both videos, it's amazing how these things can just be turned into liquid and then powder, and then bars again. I never liked chemistry and found it boring, but you sure have changed my mind there! Amazing stuff, I hope you get a billion subs!

[@randallpietrocci5403]

I love the new song at the end during the time-lapse!

[@coope46]

Ive watched you for years and I think this is one of the coolest things youve done, I could watch the silver fall off for hours

[@RBuckminsterFuller]

Jupiter? More like Neptune! Really cool.

[@chasemeyer6688]

More like Uranus

[@AttilaAsztalos]

Yes but Jupiter has better PR...

[@XVIIstarPt_]

@@chasemeyer6688 🤔

[@inventionutopia525]

You really are one of the most entertaining people I have ever met in my life much less the most entertaining person on KZbin your science experiments Rock Cody thank you so much for the work you do keep pumping out that awesome content man we support you in every way

[@gayforbrae5693]

honestly +10 respect for thinking about what would happen if he gave all the numbers out to everyone

[@lightdark00]

What he said though should have people picking over eBay though. Cody might have made so much money, he's buying up more now 😁

[@alaric_]

I heard of this thing called freedom of information.. Cody's been proponent of it quite some time. Because the value of the gold was so essential on the video, it was kinda weird to then censor one number because of "concern of public jumping the gun". What made those people in Patreon so trustworthy that they wouldn't start hoarding gold from ebay? Buck a month makes you smart? People with access beyond paywall do know what to do and the others don't? Yeah, that was not the Cody's proudest moment. Besides that, i am happy subscriber and will be long into the foreseeable future. // No one is immune to criticism

[@lightdark00]

Alaric Balthi the object, is Cody doesn't seem to be the best at costing out every consumable used. Chemicals and electricity are part of the cost. If he calculated in time, it would probably always be a loss at these low volumes.

[@thomasanonymous998]

lightdark00 you have tp take into account that cody does either recyle some of his chemicals or make some of his own.

[@pneumarian]

@Alaric Balthi: I think the idea is that if a bunch of his patrons jump on a bad investment, it's hurting a lot fewer people than if a few of his subscribers jump on it. (Also, if they have money to be patrons, they're less likely to need a good ROI to get by.)

[@punishedexistence]

I love how Cody explores every little facet of science in his videos, right down to observing the convection of the silver crystals. You sir are a welcome influence and inspiration for our future Tom Edisons and Nikola Teslas of this world. Thank you for thoroughly stimulating my metaphorical chemistry and science boner for years.

[@jasonosmond6896]

Next time cast your copper into a open grid/lattice instead of a monolithic copper turd, and you won't have to wait so long for it to react the silver out of solution. :) Also it seems like an air stone or a stir bar would be of use here.

[@The_Joend]

I was wondering why he didn't use an air stone, maybe this was to reduce the amount of nitrogen dioxide that was produced from the inquarting? Can you eleborate if you see this Cody?

[@vmp916]

How does one go about casting in that shape?

[@soloban81]

“Monolithic turd” lol

[@jasonosmond6896]

+vmp916 easy way would be to use one half of a waffle iron :D or just do like Cody did, except instead of digging out a trench in the mold, dig out a grid.

[@Azraiel.Bridger]

Or screw casting altogether and use ezaf to acquire stripped copper wire zero need to remelt and could have hooked up to a DC converted power supply with a zinc cathode/ anode to expedite the entire process and a stir bar/ airstone really would not have helped unless the mix was kept at a constant regulated / elevated temp which would have also expedited the process

[@peterquint3816]

Beautiful, fascinating video. Man, so much of this stuff has a appeal direct to the senses: the lovely colours, the shiny metals, the patterns in the reactions, even the shapes of the glassware. Also you're a great host. Cheers for making this.

[@SecretLars]

KZbin should put you in a VIP class where you can upload without fear of being copyright struck and silenced.

[@yourfavoritejojo5235]

SecretLars they won't

[@generalratto]

They should

[@General12th]

@@generalratto They won't.

[@spudkingxd4843]

@@General12th they should

[@bbosep]

1. I see new Cody'sLab video 2. I like 3. I watch and learn Thank you Cody!

[@tillvonlupke3068]

Happy Birthday Codie

[@Louis.Campbell]

I hope your channel stops getting strikes, you are the reason I am now studying chemistry at University and your videos are always super interesting

[@brfisher1123]

You can also recycle the copper out of solution if you had a more reactive metal like iron (steel) in hand :)

[@theCodyReeder]

O I could just react the copper carbonate with charcoal. ;)

[@brfisher1123]

+Cody'sLab The charcoal method is indeed a better alternative as the iron method would be much slower.

[@joeyhinds6216]

ooo nice Then you could allow the saplings to uptake the CO2 produced

[@theobscurity9392]

Nah just take the copper solution to the scrap yard as is, let them deal with it

[@incrypt_2220]

Cody = the Chemistry Rock-star! I never liked Chemistry in college, and now I find myself racing to watch your videos. Keep it up, and glad your back. Oh, and I'm glad I'm in with the early crowd (watching it while I'm at work... LOL)

[@nickcage5102]

Thanks Cody, I'm sorry KZbin is being so rough on you. I appreciate your videos and find you as a legitimate content creator. I figure you have some troll from another science channel is after you. There is no reason to flag your content.

[@yimyan6900]

ល្អណាសបង

[@Neffers_UK]

Great video. Numpty level comment incoming... I dunno what it is but the colours you produce while processing materials really pleases me. The cyan appearance of the solution in this vid was extremely pleasing to my eyes. Berol (or was it Steadtler, I forget, it was in the 80's) made a pencil with the colour named as "Sea Green", the solution you had was pretty much the same. I have it on my wall at home, it's my favourite colour.

[@electronicsNmore]

Back in action. :-) Beautiful bars.

[@TabooGroundhog]

I appreciate how you care enough about the quality of your comments to edit them even if no one ends up seeing them.

[@spudkingxd4843]

@@TabooGroundhog cringe bro

[@trulyinfamous]

2:16 I love the sound the bar makes, along with seeing how huge it is.

[@Boostedbloodsugar]

welcome back CodySlab

[@lynn2215]

i dont know why, but watching this channel just makes me happy. i really do look forward to each video

[@saser11]

Worlds most satisfying lava lamp!

[@KT-bh7hr]

That's what I was thinking! You could start a business selling those lol.

[@colbiesthename2875]

Hmm, a $400+ lava lamp with hazardous chemicals? Shut up and take my money!

[@wiseguy4457]

Cody I love all the videos you put out I’ve been watching since you only had like five videos of science related stuff. You’re my all time favorite youtuber. Keep up the good work man. Love from Florida

[@theoriginalbreadcrumb]

anyone else watching who don't understand shit but still find it extremely facinating to watch?

[@BigOlSmellyFlashlight]

me usually I understand the videos but I have no idea what this glowing blue stuff is

[@rasmachris94]

It's always a pleasure to come watch whatever you're doing.

[@gachatube2275]

Remember when Cody's mom had nice things?...

[@evanislost]

Where the hell did all my spoons go? - Cody's mom

[@bryangarrison9447]

Sicko! LOL

[@PetCactusA_HarmlessLittlePrick]

Maybe she still does.We're just not allowed to see them 'cuz Cody's dad would get mad.

[@australiangamer7956]

What nice things?

[@destinodk]

Great video and what a awesome visual way to show off the process. and welcome back to uploading dear Cody.

[@mtftpigeon]

what right do people on youtube have to demand anything from cody? that's the whole point of patreon. you support him financially and he gives you the ability to in-part dictate what content he produces. if you watch his youtube videos but dont care enough to donate money to him, you have no right complaining when he does something like the gold price incident. people who get upset over stuff like that make me worry about the future of humanity

[@Robber7]

Another like hunter appeared!

[@williamrogers7063]

*Complains himself about people complaining*

[@schwarzarne]

You still dont get to demand anything from anyone just because you are struggling financially.

[@schwarzarne]

gacekky1 answering turninator. But I'm not so sure now I understood what he is talking about.

[@daemoh3696]

Arne Schwarz not everyone has the money just throw at people

[@laserdragonflying966]

I like the timelaps music! great to have u back

[@ravenamiir9340]

Where do you get those tall glass containers

[@TheSkaireKrowe]

Pretty badass. Thanks Cody for another fine episode. Welcome back to KZbin.

[@UNCKDPILT]

can you make the power puff girls

[@thephoenixsystem6765]

hmm might take another 5 years to develop the technology but we're making strides

[@massimilianoilardi3571]

Ciao il palladio cosa 75 dollari al grammo giusto 22500 dollari giusto 300 grammi

[@tranquility382]

dont worry about people being upset. the internet is full of keyboard warriors. you do a great job and if people are upset about not releasing certain information then by all means they can go ahead and do the projects themselves. im sorry to say, as im sure you appreciate the viewer count, but its the same negative viewer who flag your videos and complain. big ups to you and the effort that you put in buddy. much appreciated

[@lanceshallenberger7563]

Could you refine sodium metal from table salt?

[@GlebReawer]

Int theory yes, you'd have to use Lithium to get the Chlorine to switch over from the Sodium. In practice this would quite difficult and expensive.

[@alecwallisch9045]

@@GlebReawer could also use electrolysis of molten table salt

[@Producer_Steve]

Glad to see you back Cody. Thanks for keeping up with the great content. Keep the videos coming.

[@rfldss89]

is there any reason why you don't put your metal bars on something like a ceramic plate instead of a wooden plank? seems to me that currently you'd have to clean them off, but if you used an old ceramic plate (or even a graphite mold or something similar) that wouldnt be the case.

[@theCodyReeder]

That was gypsum board.

[@soulwynd]

I assume it is because it gives a better surface area than if the copper was all smooth.

[@darianbrown5098]

And a ceramic plate would explode from the thermal shock

[@danielobrien9536]

The time lapse at the end is soooo good! Great work man.

[@yermanoh]

happy birthday brodie,,,,, hit that thumbs up button

[@limbridk]

By far the visually coolest method you have shown us. Thanks for keeping me interested. Great job! :)

[@videogamegang1797]

The metal growing off of the copper bar reminds me of the experiment NileRed did when he accidentally rediscovered Lead Sponge.

[@styxdragoncharon4003]

Cody, I'm glad to see you uploading again. I hope youtube can remember that you are an educational channel this time, DFTBA!

[@quisgaming7430]

*melts metal* cody: "woah its HOT"

[@renegade44040]

That rotation of the blue banded fluid was amazing to watch!

[@Kaos2244220011]

the song for the end time lapse?

[@revtmyers1]

I so enjoy watching your videos. You make so many things look so easy and interesting. Yet I realize that the odds of me ever doing any of these is never going to happen it's so gratifying just to be able to see it.

[@doubledarefan]

This video shows what will happen to the KZbin server if this channel is struck/disabled again.

[@alexanderprivate7233]

I love that KZbinrs like Cody show that science can be beautiful as well as interesting

[@manhdo5841]

you can’t watch a Cody’s video without seeing the spoon :v

[@alejandrorobles6865]

Manh Do que hongo

[@thecrazymonkey5962]

+Lord Turnip que rollo con el hoyo

[@johnpossum556]

I'm not sure how you got a video out but I'm glad you did. I would like to see you pound some of the gold bar out to be gold leaf. Maybe you could do an episode for Valentines day or Mothers day and gold leaf something, perhaps your YT picture frame? Or a wooden picture frame. I saw them doing a door frame downtown one day when I passed by. Beautiful!

[@argh02]

Cody's back, yeah! :-)

[@allenpeyerl2095]

You send people to Patreon for one reason. To make money... There is nothing wrong with making money. Actually the more money you make, the more/better content you can provide to us. Keep up the work, and don't let the the comments get to you.

[@averagepeople9802]

you should make coins that says cody's lab in copper silver and gold and sell those. but you can just do electroplating for the gold/silver coins. it would just be cool buy my a coin that you refined and made. also, if you do make those, make a video of it and do a give away for one.

[@thekingofbeez3192]

Average People I would buy one for sure

[@samuelgeorge8524]

You're freaking awesome man. Thank you for making me love chemistry that which I never understood and hated at one point of time.

[@egimata]

I thought my cat meowed, lol

[@stevemarshall3481]

I've watched loads of your videos Cody, and so far this is my favourite 👍

[@emilys7036]

Love how this dude makes himself laugh so often lmao

[@2010stoof]

Good solution to using the excess nitric acid is before adding the copper, throw some sterling spoons in there until there's no more reaction with the nitric, then remove the sterling and move on with the copper to pull out of solution

[@Zevros]

Music at the end?

[@hawk0485]

I think it's based on this: Stuck In the Sound: Let's Go

[@TobiNightcore]

Really nice video. The reactions looked really cool and it's probably one of the coolest recovery videos you've done so far

[@nathanbinns6345]

Hey Cody, you should look up Patrick Adair Designs on KZbin - he also works with the Waterjet Guys from time to time. He can turn some of those precious metals back into jewellery for you, if you look at his works on his channel they are pretty great.

[@darianbrown5098]

Nathan Binns I second this

[@WolfLover9191]

Thirded

[@syahir7494]

Fouthththththththths

[@ombaboolall3560]

Fifths!!!

[@matthewsolares9407]

a colab with him would definitely be something awesome to see

[@georgekeller5619]

Don't stop doing what you're doing Cody! Epic. Really inspiring stuff!

[@BenjaminMellor]

I heard meowing in the background.

[@stash420uk9]

Awesome video dude!! loved how the solution looked after the big stir and it resembled the surface Jupiter, I couldn't believe how beautiful it looked, now all I can think about is how cool it would be to have a lava lamp type device that looked like that lol. StAsh.

[@TF2Scout10]

Can you make a silver short sword?

[@musicandalltheprettybits2670]

Nathan Covaleski yes, but not as a viable self defense tool

[@bigc716]

Michael Haigh What if you need to defend against a werewolf? Or a debt collector...

[@musicandalltheprettybits2670]

cj Miller ... then find enough much silver to choke a werewolf

[@aquaticpears3183]

Welcome back Cody and Happy Birthday Brodie!

[@spicytaco2400]

Who else was watching the clock instead of the copper?

[@SuperWasweissichdenn]

I showed your video to a guy owning a precious metal refining business and he said he would really wonder if you were making any money if you take the cost for chemicals and energy into calculation. He buys tons of jewellery each month to get gold and silver off and he also refines tons of platinum catalyzers and chemical sediments. At least where i live the needed chemicals are way too expensive plus some are controlled by the government and not avialable for normal citizens.

[@blitznoobz1457]

If youtube strikes this, youtube is seriously broken

[@brendanupton1234]

Glad to see you back up and posting again!

[@Zephon9]

KITTY!

[@henrycgs]

That end time-lapse was really cool! One of the coolest in this channel!

[@baholder]

The copper look like a long, massive, log of poop

[@symmx2408]

Andy sixx log...

[@i-evi-l]

That copper ingot is worth about a few hundred bucks by itself is my guess.

[@7cleverboys]

and the liquid looks like toilot water

[@funkyfresh1013]

@@i-evi-l coppers worth like 10 dollars a kilo...

[@i-evi-l]

@@funkyfresh1013 That ingot weighs more than 20lbs.

[@lordofthechimie]

Hey Cody! please make videos about ordinary rocks and pebbles. I want to learn to speculate about the chemical composition of seemingly unimportant rocks. It will be very interesting to see you collecting some random rocks and speculate about their composition by looking at their colors, lines, shape, etc.

[@Taskforce1]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRODIE! (like if you saw it)

[@Tutfrem]

i love how you set the timelapse to 1 picture a minute and the seconds pointer stood still throughout the thing

[@trppytoes]

The mad scientist is back!!!! This is my late birthday present, thanks Cody!

[@M1sterSh4ggy]

This is one of your coolest videos yet Cody I love it!

[@RaExpIn]

It's nice to see this at such a large scale. I also like the time-lapse!

[@WaspandUnicorn]

Glad to see a new video! Hope this one stays up!

[@i-evi-l]

Good to see you got your channel up and going again!

[@larrywalker3137]

I see you're back up on KZbin they finally come to their senses huh enjoy your videos always look forward to them

[@Tobywan83]

Welcome back Cody! We missed you!

[@dimitar4y]

So glad you addressed the silver costs.

[@amberceceliahoffman9930]

You are BAD ADS! this stuff is so neat to watch! I love it

[@leverman7517]

Hey Cody, really enjoy your vids, especially like these on metal refining and recovery. If you are into Sci-fi books there is a good series about a scientist in a gov. lab doing this same work. The Skylark series by E.E. Doc. Smith. , way back in the 30's you'd like it!

[@mj33090]

Liking this video before I even watch it...you're THAT awesome, Cody!

[@Curtislow2]

Glad you r back online Cody.